currently, at northwestern university:...

Alan V. Sahakian, March, 2020

CURRENTLY, AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering (by courtesy while serving as chair of EECS) Associate Dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Member of the Academic Affiliate Staff, Department of Cardiology, NorthShore University HealthSystem (Evanston Hospital)

EDUCATION: 5/1984 Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Thesis title: “Algorithm, Architecture and Electrode Studies for Apnea Monitoring using a Multi-Microprocessor System.” Major advisor: Willis J. Tompkins (ECE). Minor Advisor: Edward F. Moore (CS) 8/1979 MSEE from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Thesis title: “A Microprocessor-Based Arrhythmia Monitor/Recorder for the Operating and Recovery Rooms” 5/1976 BS in Applied Science and Physics from the University of Wisconsin- Parkside. Also studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at UW-Madison.

EXPERIENCE:

2000-present: Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (became Electrical and Computer

Engineering in September 2019) and of Biomedical Engineering (by courtesy while serving as the chair of EECS), Northwestern University.

Associate Dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. Responsible for Centers, International Relations, Program Review and Faculty Awards and Honors (January 2019-present)

Chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department (July 1, 2011 – December 31, 2018)

John A. Dever Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (September 2015 – December 2019)

Associate Chair of EECS/ECE Department for Undergraduate Program (2003-July 2011). Director of EECS Signals and Systems Division (2005-2019). Charles Deering McCormick Chaired Professor of Teaching Excellence (1999-2002)

1990-2000: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Electrical and Computer

Engineering) and of Biomedical Engineering, Bette and Neisen Harris Chaired Professor of Teaching Excellence (9/93-8/95) Director of ECE Instructional Labs (9/98-8/00) Associate Chair for ECE Undergraduate Program and Accreditation (9/93-8/98).

2 Alan V. Sahakian, Ph.D., November 2019

1984-1990: Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, with courtesy appointment in Biomedical Engineering. 1985-present: Member: Academic Affiliate Staff (formerly Associate Professional Staff) Department of Medicine, Evanston Hospital (NorthShore University HealthSystem). Research, primarily into cardiac electrophysiology. Summer 1987: Resident Visiting Scholar, Center for Excellence in Reliability and Maintainability, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH. Studied reliability science and high-reliability systems including fault-tolerant computer architectures. 1980-84 and 1978 - 79: Research Assistant, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Studied Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. Researched algorithms, architectures and instrumentation methods for medical patient monitoring including neonatal apnea (SIDS) and cardiac arrhythmias in ambulatory and surgical situations. Developed novel adaptive signal processing methods for signal separation. 1982-1983: Electrical Engineer, Applied Electronic Consultants Inc. and sister corporation Bahr Technologies, Madison, WI. Developed computer hardware, algorithms and system software for medical patient monitoring. 1979-1980: Senior Electrical Engineer, Processor Design Specialist, Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, MN. Responsible for developing computer architectures, devices and algorithms for patient-worn and implantable heart monitors. Developed novel low-power digital and mixed-signal circuits and systems.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: My lab has several recent research interests (with funding from the sources listed):

1) The electrophysiology of the atrial cardiac arrhythmias, in particular atrial fibrillation, and algorithms and devices for arrhythmia monitoring and management (Medtronic, Dr. Scholl Foundation).

2) Microwave and millimeter-wave systems and related signal processing for non-contact patient monitoring and imaging/therapy (DoD Breast Cancer CDMRP, DoE)

3) Image-guided irreversible electroporation ablation therapy for non-resectable cancerous tumors of the liver, pancreas and other organs (NIH)

4) RF ablation to create a cancer-free margin in post-lumpectomy breasts (NSF) 5) Novel logic realizations including spintronic and other beyond-CMOS approaches (Intel)


PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3090-0328

JOURNAL PAPERS: 1) E. Besler; Y.C. Wang and A.V. Sahakian, “Early and Late Fusion Machine Learning on

Multi-Frequency Electrical Impedance Data to Improve Radiofrequency Ablation Monitoring,” ACCEPTED - TO APPEAR IN IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, November, 2019.

2) E. Besler, Y.C. Wang and A.V. Sahakian, “Real-time Radiofrequency Ablation Lesion Depth Estimation Using Multi-frequency Impedance with a Deep Neural Network and Tree-based Ensembles,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, DOI 10.1109/TBME.2019.2950342, IEEE, October 2019.

3) Y. Schwarz, J. Wasserlauf, A.V. Sahakian and B. Knight, “Inappropriate activation of pacemaker magnet response mode by CPAP masks,” Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, 10 April 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/pace.13693.

4) E. Besler, Y.C. Wang, T. Chan and A.V. Sahakian, “Real-time Monitoring of Radiofrequency Ablation Using Tree-based Ensemble Learning Models,” International Journal of Hyperthermia, V36(1) pp. 428-437, April 2019.

5) F. Callawaert, V. Velev, P. Kumar, A.V. Sahakian and K. Aydin “Inverse-Designed Streetchable Metalens with Tunable Focal Distance,” Applied Physics Letters, 112, 091102 (2018), doi.org/10.1063/1.5017719 , Feb 2018.

6) F. Callewaert, V. Velev, P. Kumar, A.V. Sahakian and K. Aydin “Inverse-Designed Broadband All-Dielectric Electromagnetic Metadevices,” Scientific Reports, Article number 1358, doi:10.1038/s41598-018-19796-y, Jan. 22, 2018.

7) Y.C. Wang, T.C. Chan and A.V. Sahakian, “Real-time estimation of lesion depth and control of radiofrequency ablation within ex vivo animal tissues using a neural network,” International Journal of Hyperthermia, doi: 10.1080/02656736.2017.1416495, Jan. 4, 2018.

8) J.S. Friedman, A.J. Girdhar, R.M. Gelfand, G. Memik, H. Mohseni, A. Taflove, B.W. Wessels, J-P. Leburton and A.V. Sahakian, “Cascaded Spintronic Logic with Low-Dimensional Carbon,” Nature Communications, Article number 15635 (2017), doi:10.1038/ncomms15635, http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15635, June 5, 2017.

9) J.S. Friedman, A. Godkin, A. Henning, Y. Vaknin, Y. Rosenwaks and A.V. Sahakian, “Threshold Logic with Electrostatically Formed Nanowires,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, V63(3), pp. 1388-1391, March 2016.

10) J.S. Friedman, E.R. Fadel, B.W. Wessels, D. Querlioz and A.V. Sahakian, “Bilayer Avalanche Spin-Diode Logic,” AIP Advances 5, 117102, http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/adva/5/11/10.1063/1.4935262 , October 2015.

11) J.S. Friedman, B.W. Wessels, G. Memik and A.V. Sahakian, “Emitter-Coupled Spin-Transistor Logic: Cascaded Spintronic Computing Beyond 10 GHz,” IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, Vol 5(1), pp. 17-27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JETCAS.2015.2398231, February, 2015..

12) J.S. Friedman and A.V. Sahakian, “Complementary Magnetic Tunnel Junction Logic,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol.16(4), pp. 1207-1210, April 2014..


13) J.S. Friedman, J.A. Peters, G. Memik, B.W. Wessels and A.V. Sahakian, “Emitter-Coupled Spin-Transistor Logic,” Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2013.08.012 , 2013.

14) I.V. Mikhelson, P.G. Lee, A.V. Sahakian and A.K. Katsaggelos, “Automatic, Fast, Online Calibration Between Depth and Color Cameras,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2013.

15) I.V. Mikhelson, S. Bakhtiari, T.W. Elmer and A.V. Sahakian, “Remote Sensing of Patterns of Cardiac Activity on an Ambulatory Subject Using Millimeter-Wave Interferometry and Statistical Methods,” Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, Vol 51(1-2), pp.135-142, DOI: 10.1007/s11517-012-0977-6, February 2013.

16) I.V. Mikhelson, P. Lee, S. Bakhtiari, T.W. Elmer, A.K. Katsaggelos and A.V. Sahakian, “Non-Contact Millimeter-Wave Real-Time Detection and Tracking of Heart Rate on an Ambulatory Subject,” IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 16(5), pp. 927-934, September 2012.

17) O.O. Adeyanju, H.M. Al-Angari and A.V. Sahakian, “The Optimization of Needle Electrode Number and Placement for Irreversible Electroporation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma,” Radiology and Oncology, Vol. 46(2), pp. 126-135, April 2012.

18) A.V. Sahakian, H. M. Al-Angari, and O.O. Adeyanju, “Electrode Activation Sequencing Employing Conductivity Changes in Irreversible Electroporation Tissue Ablation,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 59(3), pp. 604-607, March 2012.

19) H. al-Angari and A.V. Sahakian, “Automated Recognition of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome Using Support Vector Machine Classifier,” IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 16(3), pp. 463-468, May 2012.

20) S. Bakhtiari, T.W. Elmer, N.M. Cox, N. Gopalsami, A.C. Raptis, S. Lin, I.V. Mikhelson and A.V. Sahakian, “Compact Millimeter Wave Sensor for Remote Monitoring of Vital Signs,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol.61(3), pp. 830-841, March 2012.

21) O.O. Adeyanju, H. al-Angari and A.V. Sahakian, “The Improvement of Irreversible Electroporation Therapy Using Saline-Irrigated Electrodes: a Theoretical Study,” Technol Cancer Res Treat., Vol.10(4), pp. 347-60, August 2011.

22) I.V. Mikhelson, S. Bakhtiari, T.W. Elmer and A.V. Sahakian, “Remote Sensing of Heart Rate and Patterns of Respiration on a Stationary Subject Using 94 GHz Millimeter Wave Interferometry,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 58, Issue 6, pp. 1671-1677, June 2011.

23) J. Koenig, A.V. Sahakian, A. Ricke, and S. Swiryn, “Observations of Pacemaker Pulses in High Bandwidth Electrocardiograms and Dower-estimated Vectorcardiograms,” Journal of Electrocardiology, Vol. 44, pp. 275-281, 2011.

24) Y. Guo, Y. Zhang, G.M. Nijm, A.V. Sahakian, G.-Yu Yang, R.A. Omary, and A.C. Larson,” Irreversible Electroporation in the Liver: Contrast-enhanced Inversion-Recovery MR Imaging Approaches to Differentiate Reversibly Electroporated Penumbra from Irreversibly Electroporated Ablation Zones,” Radiology, Vol. 258, pp. 461-468, Feb. 2011.

25) Y. Zhang, Y. Guio, A.B. Ragin, R.J. Lewandowski, G.-Y. Yang, G.M. Nijm, A.V. Sahakian, R. Omary and A.C.Larson, “MR Imaging to Assess Immediate Response to Irreversible Electroporation for Targeted Ablation of Liver Tissues: Preclinical Feasibility Studies in a Rodent Model,” Radiology 256(2), pp. 424-432, 2010.


26) A. Mashal, B. Sitharaman, X. Li, P.K. Avti, A.V. Sahakian, J.H. Booske, and S.C. Hagness, “Toward Carbon-Nanotube-Based Theranostic Agents for Microwave Detection and Treatment of Breast Cancer: Enhanced Dielectric and Heating Response of Tissue-Mimicking Materials,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 57(8), pp. 1831-1834, 2010.

27) Y. Guo, Y. Zhang, R. Klein, G.M. Nijm, A.V. Sahakian, R.A. Omary, G.-Yu Yang, and A.C. Larson, “Irreversible Electroporation Therapy in the Liver: Longitudinal Efficacy Studies in a Rat Model of Hepatocellular Carcinoma,” Cancer Research, 70(4), pp. 1555-1563, 2010.

28) A.Heifitz, S-C Kong, A.V. Sahakian, A. Taflove, V. Backman, “Photonic Nanojets,” Journal of computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, 6(9), pp. 1979-1992, 2009.

29) S. Petrutiu, A.V. Sahakian, W. Fisher and S. Swiryn, “Manifestation of Left Atrial Events and Inter-atrial Frequency Gradients in the Surface Electrocardiogram during Atrial Fibrillation: Contributions from Posterior Leads,” Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 2009.

30) A.D. Ricke, S. Swiryn, A.V. Sahakian, S. Petrutiu, B. Young, and G.I. Rowlandson, “ The relationship Between Programmed Pacemaker Pulse Amplitude and Surface ECG recorded Amplitude: Application of a New High Resolution ECG System,” Journal of Electrocardiology, Vol. 41(6), pp. 526-530, November 2008

31) G.M. Nijm, A.V. Sahakian, S. Swiryn, J.C. Carr, J.J. Sheehan and A.C. Larson, “Comparison of Self-Gated Cine MRI Retrospective Cardiac Synchronization Algorithms,” Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 28(3), pp. 767-772, 2008.

32) S-C Kong, A.V. Sahakian, A. Taflove, V. Backman, “High-density Optical Data Storage Enabled by the Photonic Nanojet from a Dielectric Microsphere, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 48(3), 2009.

33) G.M. Nijm, S. Swiryn, A.C. Larson and A.V. Sahakian, “Extraction of the Magnetohydrodynamic Blood Flow Potential from the Surface Electrocardiogram in Magnetic Resonance Imaging,” Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, 46(7), pp. 729-733, 2008.

34) S-C Kong, A.V. Sahakian, A. Taflove and V. Backman, “Photonic nanojet-enabled optical data storage,” Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 18, pp. 13713-13719, 2008

35) S-C Kong, A.V. Sahakian, A. Heifetz, A. Taflove and V. Backman, "Robust Detection of Deeply Subwavelength Pits in Simulated Optical Data-Storage Disks Using Photonic Jets," Applied Physics Letters 92(21), pp. 211102-211102-3, 2008 (Cover article).

36) E C Ehman, P J Rossman, S A Kruse, A V Sahakian and K J Glaser, “Vibration safety limits for magnetic resonance elastography,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, 53, pp. 925-935, 2008.

37) M.S. Guillem, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Derivation of Orthogonal Leads from the 12-Lead ECG. Performance of an atrial-based transform for the derivation of P loops,” Journal of Electrocardiology 41(1) pp. 19-25, 2008.

38) H. al-Angari and A.V. Sahakian, “Use of Sample Entropy Approach to Study Heart Rate Variability in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 54(10) pp. 1900-1904, 2007.

39) S. Petrutiu, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Abrupt changes in fibrillatory wave characteristics at the termination of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in humans,” Europace, 9(7), pp. 466-470, 2007.


40) M. Ruffolo, M.S. Daskin, A.V. Sahakian and R. Berry, “Design of a Large Network for Radiological Image Data,” IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 11(1) pp. 25-39, 2007.

41) S. Petrutiu, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Short-Term Dynamics in Fibrillatory Wave Characteristics at the Onset of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation in Humans,” The Journal of Electrocardiology, 40(2) pp. 155-160, 2007.

42) A.Heifetz, K. Huang, A.V. Sahakian, X. Li, A. Taflove and V. Backman, “Experimental Confirmation of Backscattering Enhancement Induced by a Photonic Jet,” Applied Physics Letters, 89(22), pp. 221118-221118-3, 2006.

43) S. Petrutiu, J. Ng, G. M. Nijm, H. al-Angari, S. Swiryn and A.V. Sahakian, “Atrial fibrillation and waveform characterization in the surface ECG – a time domain perpective,” (Invited Paper), IEEE EMBS Magazine, 25(6) pp. 24-30, Nov.2006.

44) Q. Xi, A.V. Sahakian, T.G. Frohlich, J. Ng, S.Swiryn, “Relationship between the pattern of occurrence of atrial fibrillation and surface ECG fibrillatory wave characteristics,” Heart Rhythm, 1(6), pp. 656-663, 2004.

45) J. Ng, A.V. Sahakian, W.G. Fisher and S. Swiryn, “Surface ECG vector characteristics of organized and disorganized atrial activity during atrial fibrillation,” Journal of Electrocardiology, 37(supplement), pp. 91-97, 2004.

46) Q. Xi, A.V. Sahakian, J. Ng, and S. Swiryn, “Atrial fibrillatory wave characteristics in the surface electrocardiogram: consistency over twenty-four hours in clinically stable patients,” Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 15(8), pp. 911-917, August 2004.

47) J. Ng, A.V. Sahakian, W.G. Fisher and S. Swiryn, “Atrial Flutter Loops Derived from the Surface ECG: Does the Plane of the Loop Correspond Anatomically to the Macro-reentrant Circuit,” The Journal of Electrocardiology, 36, supplement 1, pp. 181-186, 2003.

48) J. Ng, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Accelerometer-Based Body-Position Sensing for Ambulatory Electrocardiographic Monitoring,” Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology, 37(5), pp. 338-346, 2003.

49) Q. Xi, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “The effect of QRS cancellation on atrial fibrillatory wave signal characteristics in the surface electrocardiogram,”: The Journal of Electrocardiology, 36(3), pp. 243-249, 2003.

50) A.V. Sahakian, M.-S. Lee-Peterson, S. Shkurovich, M. Hamer, T. Votapka, T. Ji and S. Swiryn, “A simultaneous multichannel monophasic action potential electrode array for in vivo epicardial repolarization mapping,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 48(3), pp. 345-353, 2001.

51) S. Shkurovich, A.V. Sahakian, T.V. Votapka, T.Ji and S. Swiryn, “Multi-site monophasic action potential mapping of atrial repolarization in vivo: is atrial repolarization a two or three dimensional process?,” The Journal of Electrocardiology, 33(1) supplement, pp. 127-131, 2001.

52) D.K. Serkland, G.D. Bartolini, W.L. Kath, Prem Kumar, and A.V. Sahakian, “Rate multiplication of a 59-GHz Soliton Source at 1550 nm,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, 16(4), pp. 670-677, 1998.

53) S. Shkurovich, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Detection of atrial activity from high voltage leads of implantable defibrillators using a cancellation technique,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 45(2), pp. 229-234, 1998.


54) A.T. Schoenwald, A.V. Sahakian, H.J. Sih and S. Swiryn, “Further observations of “linking” of atrial excitation during clinical atrial fibrillation,” PACE, 21(1), pp. 25-34. 1998.

55) A.T. Schoenwald, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Discrimination of atrial fibrillation from regular atrial rhythms by spatial precision of local activation directions,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 44(10), pp. 958-963, 1997.

56) S.N. Laxminarayan, J-L. Coatrieux, C. Roux, S.M. Finkelstein, A.V. Sahakian and S.M. Blanchard, “Biomedical Information Technology: Medicine and Health Care in the Digital Future,” IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 1(1), pp. 1-7, 1997.

57) S.M. Shors, A.V. Sahakian, H.J. Sih and S. Swiryn, “A method for determining high-resolution activation time delays in cardiac mapping,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 43(12), pp. 1192-1196, 1996.

58) A.T. Schoenwald, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Detecting atrial fibrillation using spatial precision,” IEEE EMBS Magazine (invited) Vol. 15(3), pp. 45-51, 1996.

59) C.L. Chan, A.K. Katsaggelos and A.V. Sahakian, “Linear-quadratic noise-smoothing filters for quantum-limited images, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 4(9), pp. 1328-1333, 1995.

60) H.J. Sih, A.V. Sahakian, C.E. Arentzen and S.Swiryn, “A frequency domain analysis of epicardial maps,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 42(7), pp. 718-727, 1995.

61) N. Maglaveras, F. Offner, F. VanCapelle, M. Allessie and A. Sahakian, “Effects of barriers on propagation of action potentials in two-dimensional cardiac tissue. A computer simulation study,” The Journal of Electrocardiology, 28(1), pp. 17-31, 1995.

62) H.J. Sih, K.M. Ropella, S. Swiryn, E.P. Gerstenfeld and A.V. Sahakian, “Observations from intra-atrial recordings on the termination of atrial fibrillation,” Pace, 17(7), pp. 1231-1242, 1994.

63) C.L. Chan, A.K. Katsaggelos and A.V. Sahakian, “Recursive locally linear motion-compensated image sequence filtering under quantum-limited conditions,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 4(4), pp. 349-363, December, 1993.

64) C.L. Chan, A.K. Katsaggelos and A.V. Sahakian, “Image sequence filtering in quantum noise with applications to low-dose fluoroscopy,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 12(3) pp. 610-621, September, 1993.

65) E.P. Gerstenfeld, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Evidence for transient linking of atrial excitation during atrial fibrillation in man,” Circulation, 86(2), pp. 375-382, 1992.

66) A.Sahakian, G. Myers and N. Maglaveras, “Unidirectional block in cardiac fibers: effects of discontinuities in coupling resistance and spatial changes in resting membrane potential in a computer simulation study,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 39(5), pp. 510-522, 1992.

67) J. Slocum, A. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Diagnosis of atrial fibrillation from surface electrocardiograms based on computer-detected atrial activity,” the Journal of Electrocardiology, 25(1), pp. 1-8, 1992.

68) A.Sahakian, K. Ropella and S. Swiryn, “Atrial electrograms and the characterization of atrial fibrillation,” Journal of Electrocardiology, 24, pp. 131-133, 1991.

69) E. Gerstenfeld, A. Sahakian, J. Baerman, K. Ropella and S. Swiryn, “Detection of changes in atrial endocardial activation with use of an orthogonal catheter,” The Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 18(4), pp. 1034-1042, 1991.


70) K. Ropella, J. Baerman, A. Sahakian and S. Swiryn “Differentiation of ventricular tachyarrhythmias,” Circulation, 82, pp. 2035-2043, 1990.

71) A.Sahakian, K. Ropella, J. Baerman and S. Swiryn, “Measuring the organization of cardiac rhythms using the magnitude-squared coherence function,” IEEE EMBS magazine, 9(1), pp. 25-28, 1990 (invited).

72) J. Baerman, K. Ropella, A. Sahakian, J. Kirsh and S. Swiryn, “Effect of bipole configuration on atrial electrograms during atrial fibrillation,” Pace, 13(1), pp. 78-87, 1990.

73) K. Ropella, A. Sahakian, J. Baerman and S. Swiryn, “The coherence spectrum: a quantitative discriminator of fibrillatory and non-fibrillatory cardiac rhythms,” Circulation, 80: 112-119, 1989.

74) J. Kirsh, A. Sahakian, J. Baerman and S. Swiryn, “Ventricular response to atrial fibrillation: role of atrioventricular conduction pathways,” Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 12(5) pp. 1265-72, 1988.

75) N. Maglaveras, A. Sahakian and G. Myers, “Boundary conditions in simulations of cardiac propagating action potentials,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 35(9) pp. 755-758, 1988.

76) K. Ropella, A. Sahakian, J. Baerman and S. Swiryn, “Effects of procainamide on intra-atrial electrograms during atrial fibrillation: implications for detection algorithms,” Circulation 77(5), pp. 1047-1054, 1988.

77) J. Slocum, A. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Computer discrimination of atrial fibrillation and regular atrial rhythms from intra-atrial electrograms,” Pace, vol. 11, pp. 610-621, 1988.

78) P. Gross, B. Matsumoto, R. Glover and A. Sahakian, “Acoustic apnea monitoring:preliminary results,” The Journal of Clinical Engineering, 12(6), pp. 433-440, 1987.

79) J. Slocum, E. Byrom, L. McCarthy, A. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Computer detection of A-V dissociation from surface electrocardiograms during wide-QRS complex tachycardias,” Circulation, 72(5), pp. 1028-1036, 1985.

80) A.V. Sahakian, W.J. Tompkins and J.G. Webster, “Electrode motion artifacts in electrical impedance pneumography,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., BME-32(6), June 1985, pp. 448-451.

81) A.V. Sahakian, W.J. Tompkins, B.M. Tompkins and J.F. Kreul, “A microprocessor-based arrhythmia monitor/recorder for the operating and recovery rooms,” Medical Instrumentation, 17(2), 1983, pp. 131-134.

TEXTBOOK CHAPTERS AND SECTIONS: 1) S. Petrutiu, G. Nijm, J. Ng, S. Swiryn and A.V. Sahakian “Time Domain Description of

Atrial Fibrillation,” in “Atrial Fibrillation, a Signal Processing Perspective” L. Sornmo and S. Cerutti, Eds., Morgan and Claypool, 2008.

2) A.V. Sahakian and G.M. Nijm, “Pulse Oximetry and Noninvasive Blood Pressure Recording,” in “Practical Signal and Image Processing Concepts for Clinical Cardiology,” J. Goldberger and J. Ng, eds., 2009.

3) C.L. Chan, A.K. Katsaggelos and A.V. Sahakian, “Techniques in Image Sequence Filtering for Clinical Angiography,” in Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications, C.T. Leondes, ed., pp. 93-145 (chapter 3), Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1997.

4) S. Swiryn, A.T. Schoenwald and A.V. Sahakian, “Detection of Atrial Fibrillation by Pacemakers and Antiarrhythmic Devices,” in F.D. Murgatroyd and A.J. Camm (eds.)


Nonpharmacological Management of Atrial Fibrillation, Chapter 21, Futura Publishing Co., 1997

5) “Adaptive Coherence Estimation on Brief Intracardiac Recordings,” in G. Clifford Carter (ed.) Coherence and Time Delay Estimation, IEEE Press (Underwater Acoustics Signal Processing Technical Committee), 1993. (This is a reprint of a paper published earlier.)

6) “Input/Output Hardware Design” in W.J. Tompkins and J.G. Webster (eds.) Design of Microcomputer-Based Medical Instrumentation, Prentice Hall, 1981, pp. 208-240. Also Russian edition, 1983.

7) “Model Microprocessors” in W.J. Tompkins and J.G. Webster (eds.) Design of Microcomputer-Based Medical Instrumentation, Prentice Hall, 1981, pp. 274- 287. Also Russian edition, 1983.

FULL-LENGTH CONFERENCE PAPERS (Selected Items):

1) Emre Besler, Yearnchee Curtis Wang, Terence Chee-Hung Chan and Alan Varteres Sahakian, “Classifying Small Volumes of Tissue for Real-Time Monitoring Radiofrequency Ablation,” To appear in proceedings of AIME 2019: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Poznan, Poland.

2) J.S. Friedman, D. Querlioz and A.V. Sahakian, “Magnetoresistance Implications for Complementary Magnetic Tunnel Junction Logic (CMAT),” Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM NanoArch Conference, Boston July 8-9, 2015.

3) M. Martins, F. Marranghello, J. Friedman, A. Sahakian, R. Ribas and A. Reis, “Enhanced Spin-Diode Synthesis Using Logic Sharing,” Proc. 2015 Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), pp. 218-224, 2015

4) J.S. Friedman, B.W. Wessels, D. Querlioz and A.V. Sahakian, “High-performance computing based on spin-diode logic,” Proc. SPIE9167, Spintronics VII, 91671J (invited paper), http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2062115 August 28, 2014.

5) I.V. Mikhelson, S. Bakhtiari, T.W. Elmer, S. Liao and A.V. Sahakian, “Remote Sensing of Heart Rate Using Millimeter-Wave Interferometry and Probabilistic Interpolation,” Proceedings of SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing Conf., DOI: 10.1117/12.2015282, June 2013.

6) Mayler G.A. Martins, Felipe S. Marranghello, Joseph S. Friedman, Alan V. Sahakian, Renato P. Ribas and Andre Inacio Reis, “Spin Diode Network Synthesis using Functional Composition,” SBCCI 2013, 1-6.

7) Friedman, J. S., Wessels, B. W. & Sahakian, A. V. High-performance spintronic computing with magnetoresistive semiconductor heterojunctions. in SPIE Spintron. (Drouhin, H.-J., Wegrowe, J.-E. & Razeghi, M.) 88132E (2013).

8) J.S. Friedman, Y.I. Ismail, G. Memik, A.V. Sahakian and B.W. Wessels, “Emitter-Coupled Spin Transistor Logic,” Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures (NANOARCH ‘12), July 2012.

9) S.Liao, S. Bakhtiari, T.Elmer, A.C.Raptis, I.V.Mikhelson and A.V. Sahakian, ”Millimeter Wave I-Q Standoff Biosensor,” SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing Conference, Baltimore, MD, DOI: 10.1117/12.924241, June 2012.

10) W. Yip, A. Gomes, V. Backman and A. Sahakian,”Polarized Monte Carlo Simulation of Blood Vessel Structure in Colon Tissue,” Proceedings of the SPIE, V8230, pp. 823012-1 to 823012-8, 2012.


11) G.M. Nijm, S. Swiryn, A.C. Larson and A.V. Sahakian, “Estimation of T-Wave Alternans from Multi-Lead ECG Signals Using a Modified Moving Average Method,” Proceedings of IEEE Computers in Cardiology Conference, Sept. 2008.

12) G.M. Nijm, S. Swiryn, A.C. Larson, A.V. Sahakian, “Evaluation of Image Quality Metrics for Comparison of Synchronization Algorithms for Cardiac Cine MRI,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, October 2008.

13) G.M. Nijm, S. Swiryn, A.C. Larson and A.V. Sahakian, “Inhomogeneous Human Torso Model of Magnetohydrodynamic Blood Flow Potentials Generated in the MR Environment,” Proceedings of IEEE Computers in Cardiology Conference, Sept. 2008.

14) G.M. Nijm, A.V. Sahakian, S. Swiryn and A.C. Larson, “Comparison of Self-Gating Synchronization Algorithms for Cardiac Cine MRI,” Proceedings of Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Conference, Feb. 2008.

15) Ricke AD, Swiryn S, Sahakian AV, Petrutiu S, Young B, and Rowlandson, GI, “ The relationship Between Programmed Pacemaker Pulse Amplitude and Surface ECG recorded Amplitude: Application of a New High Resolution ECG System,” Proceedings of the International Society for Computerized Electrocardiography, April 2008.

16) G.M. Nijm, S. Swiryn, A.C. Larson and A.V. Sahakian, “A 3D Model of Magnetohydrodynamic Voltages: Comparison with Voltages Observed on the Surface ECG during Cardiac MRI,” Proceedings of the IEEE Computers in Cardiology Conference, 2007.

17) S. Petrutiu, A. Ricke, A.V. Sahakian, B. Young and S. Swiryn, High Resolution Electrocardiography Optimized for Recording Pulses from Electronic Pacemakers: Evaluation of a New Pacemaker Sensing System,” Proceedings of the IEEE Computers in Cardiology Conference, 2007.

18) G.M. Nijm, A.V. Sahakian, S. Swiryn and A.C. Larson, “Comparison of Signal Peak Detection Algorithms for Self-Gated Cardiac Cine MRI,” Proceedings of the IEEE Computers in Cardiology Conference, 2007.

19) S. Petrutiu, A.V. Sahakian, W. Fisher and S. Swiryn, “Manifestation of Left Atrial Events in the Surface Electrocardiogram during Atrial Fibrillation,” Proceedings of the IEEE Computers in Cardiology Conference, 2006.

20) M.S. Guillem, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Derivation of Orthogonal Leads from the 12-Lead ECG. Accuracy of a Single Transform for the Derivation of Atrial and Ventricular Waves,” Proceedings of the IEEE Computers in Cardiology Conference, 2006.

21) G. M. Nijm, S. Swiryn, A.C. Larson and A.V. Sahakian, “Characterization of the Magnetohydrodynamic Effect as a Signal from the Surface Electrocardiogram during Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Proceedings of the IEEE Computers in Cardiology Conference, 2006.

22) A.V. Sahakian, M. Billeter, G. Nijm and B. Yalvac, “A Laboratory Demonstration of Spatial Encoding in MRI,” Proceedings of the ASEE Conference, 2006.

23) A.V. Sahakian, C. Hayes and B. Yalvac, “An inexpensive laboratory module to teach principles of NMR/MRI,” Proceedings of 2005 ASEE Conference, paper 2005-1952, 2005.

24) S. Petrutiu, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Dynamics of Fibrillatory Wave Characteristics in the Surface Electrocardiogram at the Onset of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation in Humans,” Proceedings of the Heart Rhythm Society 2006 Annual Meeting.

25) Q. Xi, A.V. Sahakian, S. Swiryn, “The influence of QRS cancellation on signal characteristics of atrial fibrillation in the surface electrocardiogram, Proceedings of the IEEE Computers in Cardiology Conference 2004


26) S. Petrutiu, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Fibrillatory Wave Analysis of the Surface ECG to Predict Termination of Atrial Fibrillation: The 2004 Computers in Cardiology/PhysioNet Challenge,” Computers in Cardiology, Vol. 31, 2004.

27) E.A. Oral and A.V. Sahakian, “3-D Microwave Imaging of Breast Tumors with Matched Filtering,” Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp. 1423-1426, 2004.

28) Q. Xi, A.V. Sahakian, J. Ng and S. Swiryn, “Stationarity of Surface ECG Atrial Fibrillatory Wave Characteristics in the Time and Frequency Domains in Clinically Stable Patients,” Computers in Cardiology, Vol. 30, pp. 133-136, 2003.

29) J. Ng, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Vector Analysis of Atrial Activity from Surface ECGs Recorded During Atrial Fibrillation,” Computers in Cardiology, Vol. 29, pp. 21-24, 2002.

30) Q. Xi, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “The influence of QRS cancellation on signal characteristics of atrial fibrillation in the surface electrocardiogram,” Computers in Cardiology, Vol. 29, pp. 13-16 , 2002.

31) J. Ng, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “P-wave axis shifts due to body position changes during ambulatory ECG monitoring,” Computers in Cardiology, Vol. 28, pp. 313-316, 2001.

32) S. Shkurovich, A.V. Sahakian, T.V. Votapka, T. Ji and S. Swiryn, “Multisite Dual-Surface Monophasic Action Potential Mapping In Vivo: Further Evidence Of Three-Dimensional Characteristics Of Atrial Repolarization,” Computers in Cardiology Vol. 27, pp. 99-102, 2000.

33) J. Ng, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Sensing And Documentation Of Body Position During Ambulatory ECG Monitoring,” Computers in Cardiology Vol. 27, pp. 77-80, 2000.

34) S. Shkurovich, A.V. Sahakian, T. Ji, T. Votapka, R. Curran, M. Hamer, and S. Swiryn, “A multichannel monophasic action potential electrode array for simultaneous epicardial and endocardial repolarization mapping,” Computers in Cardiology Vol. 26, pp. 281-284, 1999.

35) A.V. Sahakian, M.S.L. Peterson, M. Hamer, T. Votapka, T. Ji, and S. Swiryn, “A simultaneous multichannel monophasic action potential electrode array for epicardial repolarization mapping,” Computers in Cardiology Vol. 25, pp. 125-128, 1998.

36) D.K. Serkland, G.D. Bartolini, P. Kumar, W.L. Kath and A.V. Sahakian, “Rate Doubling of a Highly-Stable Soliton Source,” in Conference on Optical Fiber Communication, Vol. 6, OSA Technical Digest Series pp. 292-293, 1997.

37) S. Shkurovich, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Detection of Atrial Activity from High Voltage Leads of Implantable Ventricular Defibrillators,” Computers in Cardiology Vol. 23, pp. 77-79, 1996.

38) A.T. Schoenwald, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Discrimination of atrial fibrillation from regular rhythms by spatial precision of activation direction,” proc. IEEE EMBS Conf., 1995.

39) S.M. Shors, A.V. Sahakian, H.J. Sih, and S. Swiryn, “A method for determining high-resolution activation time delays in unipolar cardiac mapping,” Computers in Cardiology Vol. 21, pp. 157-159, 1994.

40) A.T. Schoenwald, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “The distribution of local activation directions during human atrial fibrillation: implications for linking,” Computers in Cardiology Vol. 21, pp. 785-788, 1994.


41) T.J. Kostas, L. Mugnier, A.K. Katsaggelos and A.V. Sahakian, “Super-exponential method for blur identification in radiographic images,” Proceedings of SPIE conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, 2308(II), pp. 921-929, 1994.

42) A.T. Schoenwald, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “A method for determining local activation directions in the atrium,” proc. IEEE/EMBS Conf., 1994.

43) N. Maglaveras, F.J.L. van Capelle, M. Allessie, A.V. Sahakian, C. Pappas and M. Strintzis, “Dispersion of refractoriness and unidirectional block in a model of ischemic myocardium,” Computers in Cardiology Vol. 20, pp. 663-666, 1993.

44) C.L. Chan, J.C. Brailean, A.K. Katsaggelos and A.V. Sahakian, “Maximum a-posteriori displacement field estimation in quantum-limited image sequences,” Proc. SPIE Conf. on Visual Communications and Image Processing, pp. 396-407, 1993.

45) A.V. Sahakian, “Teaching advanced medical instrumentation in the quarter system: analog and digital signal processing in ten weeks,” (invited), proc. ASEE Conf., pp. 1505-1506, 1993.

46) N. Maglaveras, FJL Van Capelle, M. Allessie, A.V. Sahakian, C. Pappas and M. Strintzis, “Ischemia effects on propagation characteristics and dispersion of refractoriness in a model of ischemic myocardium,” Proc. IEEE EMBS conf., p. 812, 1993.

47) C. Chan, A. Katsaggelos and A. Sahakian, “Restoration of low-dosage cine- angiographic sequences using a modified expectation maximization algorithm,” Proc. SPIE Conf. on Visual Communications and Image Processing, Vol 1818, pp. 290-298, 1992.

48) N. Maglaveras, F.J.L. VanCapelle, J. De Bakker, M. Allessie, A.V. Sahakian, C. Pappas and M. Strintzis, “Extracellular potentials related to tortuocity and functional block in a two-dimensional model of ventricular myocardium,” Proceedings of the IEEE Computers in Cardiology conference, pp. 13-16, 1992.

49) N. Maglaveras, F.J.L. VanCapelle, J. DeBakker, M. Allessie, A.V. Sahakian, M. Strintzis and C. Pappas, “Relating tortuocity and extracellular potentials in a two-dimensional model of ventricular myocardium,” Proc. IEEE/EMBS conf., 14, pp. 596-597, 1992.

50) N. Maglaveras, F.J.L. VanCapelle, M. Allessie, A.V. Sahakian, C. Pappas and M. Strintzis, “Tortuocity effects on longitudinal and transverse plane-wave propagation in a two-dimensional model of ventricular tissue,” Computers in Cardiology Vol. 18, pp. 641-644, 1991.

51) N. Maglaveras, F.J.L. VanCapelle, M. Allessie, A.V. Sahakian, C. Pappas and M. Strintzis, “Effects of fast-inward current inactivation on propagation in a two-dimensional model of ventricular myocardium,” Proc. IEEE/EMBS conf., 13(2), pp. 613-614, 1991.

52) C. Chan, B. Sullivan, A. Sahakian, A. Katsaggelos, T. Frohlich and E. Byrom, “Spatio-temporal filtering of digital angiographic image sequences corrupted by quantum mottle,” Proc. SPIE/SPSE Symposium on Electronic Imaging, Vol 1450, pp. 208-217, 1991.

53) J.Y.Kwak, S.N. Efstratiadis, A.K. Katsaggelos, A.V. Sahakian, B.J. Sullivan, S. Swiryn, D.C. Hueter and T. Frohlich, “Motion estimation in digital angiographic images using skeletons,” Applications of Optical Engineering, Proc. OE/Midwest, 1990; 1396:32-44.

54) H.J. Sih, A.V. Sahakian, J.M. Baerman and S. Swiryn, “Effects of uniform anisotropy on wavelet fractionation and electrogram simulations in a computer model of fibrillation,” Computers in Cardiology Vol. 17, pp. 529-532, 1990.

55) K.M. Ropella, A.V. Sahakian J.M. Baerman and S. Swiryn, “Coherence estimation from a single-intra-cardiac lead with two electrode elements,” Proc. IEEE/EMBS conf., 12(2), pp. 586-587, 1990 (invited)


56) K.M. Ropella, S. Swiryn, A.V. Sahakian, H.J. Sih and J.M. Baerman, “Observations on intra-atrial signals during atrial fibrillation in man,” Proceedings of the 7’th International Congress, Cardiostim, Nice-French Riveria, 1990.

57) B. Kaufman, A.V. Sahakian and J.B. Myklebust, “Analysis of the SEP using the Hilbert Transform,” Proc. IEEE/EMBS conf., 12(2), pp. 887-888. 1990.

58) N. Maglaveras, A.V. Sahakian, F. VanCapelle, M. Allessie, C. Pappas and M. Strintzis, “Effects of barriers in plane wave propagation in a two- dimensional model of anisotropic cardiac tissue,” Proc. IEEE/EMBS conf., 12(4), pp. 1839-1840, 1990.

59) S. Swiryn, H. Sih, J. Baerman, T. Frolich and A. Sahakian, “Computer modeling in cardiac electrophysiology,” Proc. IEEE/EMBS conf., 12(2), pp. 603-604, 1990 (invited).

60) C. Chan, B. Sullivan, A. Sahakian, A. Katsaggelos, S. Swiryn, D. Hueter and T. Frolich “Simulation of quantum mottle in digital angiographic images,” Proc. SPIE/SPSE Symposium on Electronic Imaging, Vol 1245, Biomedical Image Processing, pp. 104-110, 1990.

61) A.Sahakian, K. Ropella, J. Baerman and S. Swiryn, “Adaptive coherence estimation on brief intracardiac recordings,” Proc. IEEE/EMBS 11th ann. conf., pp. 224-225, 1989. (invited)

62) K. Ropella, A. Sahakian, J. Baerman and S. Swiryn, “Effect of data segmentation on coherence estimates of cardiac rhythms,” Proc. IEEE/EMBS 11th ann. conf., pp. 16-17, 1989. (invited)

63) A.Sahakian, K. Ropella, J. Baerman and S. Swiryn, “Median frequency and coherence measures of atrial and ventricular fibrillation,” Proc. IEEE/EMBS tenth ann. conf., pp. 16-17, 1988. (invited)

64) A.Sahakian, K. Ropella, J. Baerman and S. Swiryn, “Coherence measures of cardiac arrhythmias from intra-cardiac and epicardial leads,” Computers in Cardiology Vol. 15, pp. 329-332, 1988.

65) A.Sahakian, N. Maglaveras and G. Myers, “Boundary conditions for modeling propagating cardiac action potentials,” Proc. IEEE/EMBS ninth ann. conf, pp. 311-312, 1987. (invited)

66) J. Slocum, A. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Computer detection of atrial fibrillation on the surface electrocardiogram,” Computers in Cardiology Vol. 14, pp. 253-254, 1987.

67) J. Slocum, A. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Characterization of atrial fibrillation,” Proceedings of the 1986 Engineering Foundation Conference, (Computerized interpretation of the electrocardiogram XI), pp. 102-105.

68) A.V. Sahakian and K.H. Kuo, “Canceling the cardiogenic artifact in impedance pneumography,” IEEE Frontiers of Engineering and Computing in Health Care, 1985, pp. 855-859.

69) J. Slocum, L. McCarthy, E. Byrom, A. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Detection of A-V dissociation in wide-QRS tachycardias,” IEEE Frontiers of Engineering and Computing in Health Care, 1985, pp. 762-763.

70) J. Slocum, L. McCarthy, E. Byrom, A. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Detection of A-V dissociation on the surface ECG,” Proceedings of the 1985 Engineering Foundation Conference (Computerized interpretation of the electrocardiogram X), pp. 9-11.

71) A.V. Sahakian, W.J. Tompkins and J.G. Webster, “Reducing electrode motion artifacts in electrical impedance pneumography,” IEEE Frontiers of Engineering and Computing in Health Care, 1984, pp. 334-336.


72) A.V. Sahakian and G.S. Furno, “An adaptive filter for distorted line- frequency noise,” Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, 19, 1983, pp. 47-52.

73) A.V. Sahakian and W.J. Tompkins, “A multi-microcomputer-based neonatal apnea monitor,” Proceedings of the 10th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, 1982, pp. 151-156.

ABSTRACTS (Selected Items):

1) J. Ng, H.M Al-Angari, D. Gordon, G.L Aistrup, S.Browne, A.Kunamalla, A.V.Sahakian, B.Knight, R.S.Passman, A.H.Kadish, J.J.Goldberger, R.Arora, “Constitutive Expression of a Dominant Negative TGF-β Type II Receptor in the Posterior Left Atrium Interrupts Heart Failure Induced Conduction Changes, with a Resulting Decrease in Atrial Fibrillation,” Proceedings of the 2012 AHA Conference, Abstract 18444.

2) Y. Zhang, H.M. al-Angari, Y. Guo, J. Nicolai, R.A.Klein, A. Sahakian, R.A. Omary, A.C. Larson,”MRI and 3D Finite Element Modeling for Prediction of Irreversible Electroporation Ablation Zones: Feasibility Studies in a Rat Tumor Model,” Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, V22, Issue 2, pp. S64 (Abstract #146), 2011

3) W. Yip, A. Gomes and A. Sahakian, “Polarization Gating in Resolving Blood Vascular Structure,” Proceedings US National Committee for the International Union of Radio Science Meeting, Jan. 2011.

4) Heifetz, K. Huang, A. Sahakian, X. Li, A. Taflove, V. Backman, “Experimental Confirmation of Backscattering Enhancement Induced by a Photonic Jet,” American Physical Society, Abstract ID: BAPS.2007.MAR.P38.14, March 2007.

5) Grille, H. Polster, E. Buldt, F. Asbeck, S. Shkurovich, A. Sahakian, S. Naik and T. Markowitz, “Atrial sensing performance using a novel VDD lead,” Proceedings of Cardiostim 2000 conference, May, 2000.

6) A.T. Schoenwald, A.V. Sahakian and S.Swiryn, “Effect of segment length on discrimination of atrial fibrillation by spatial precision of local activation direction,” Proceedings of NASPE conference, May, 1996.

7) H.J. Sih, A.V. Sahakian, C.E. Arentzen and S. Swiryn, “Epicardial maps of very short wavelength, acetylcholine modulated, swine atrial fibrillation,” PACE Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, 18 (part II):804, 1995.

8) A.T. Schoenwald, A.V. Sahakian, H.J. Sih and S. Swiryn, “Constant direction of multiple episodes of linking during atrial fibrillation: Implications for possible mechanisms,” Journal of the American College of Cardiology, February, 1994:1A-484A, p. 444A.

9) H.J. Sih, A.V. Sahakian, C.E. Arentzen and S. Swiryn, “Observations from epicardial maps on the termination of atrial fibrillation in a swine model,” Journal of the American College of Cardiology, February, 1994:1A-484A, p. 458a.

10) S. Swyrin, E.P. Gerstenfeld, H.J. Sih, A. Srinivasan and A. Sahakian, “The organization of atrial fibrillation,” The Journal of Electrocardiology, 25:147, 1993.

11) H.J. Sih, A.V. Sahakian, C.E. Arentzen and S. Swiryn, “A frequency domain analysis of epicardial maps,” PACE, 16:907, 1993.

12) H.J. Sih, K.M. Ropella, S. Swiryn, E.P. Gerstenfeld and A.V. Sahakian, “Observations on the termination of atrial fibrillation in humans,” Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 16:228A, 1992.


13) E.P. Gerstenfeld, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Further observations on the transient linking of atrial excitation during atrial fibrillation in man,” Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 19:64A, 1992.

14) E.P. Gerstenfeld, A.V. Sahakian, J.M. Baerman and S. Swiryn, “Transient “linking” of atrial excitation during atrial fibrillation in man,” PACE, 14:625, 1991.

15) K.M. Ropella, J.M. Baerman, A.V. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Differentiation of ventricular tachyarrhythmias for an implantable device,” PACE, 13:537, 1990.

16) E.P. Gerstenfeld, A.V. Sahakian, K.M. Ropella, J.M. Baerman and S. Swiryn, “Discrimination of antegrade from retrograde conduction using an orthogonal catheter,” PACE, 13:550, 1990.

17) J.M. Baerman, K.M. Ropella, A.V. Sahakian, J.A. Kirsh and S. Swiryn, “Effect of bipolar catheter configuration on electrogram morphology during atrial fibrillation,” PACE, 12:661, 1989.

18) J.A. Kirsh, A.V. Sahakian, J.M. Baerman K.M. Ropella and S. Swiryn, “Physiologic significance of electrogram signal characteristics during atrial fibrillation: simulated electrograms in a computer model,” PACE, 12:657, 1989.

19) Sahakian, K. Ropella, J. Baerman and S. Swiryn, “Characterization of rhythms from intra-cardiac and epicardial leads using coherence spectra,” the Journal of Electrocardiography, 22(supplement):231, 1989.

20) J.A. Kirsh, A.V. Sahakian, J.M. Baerman and S. Swiryn, “Ventricular response in atrial fibrillation: role of atrioventricular conducting pathways, PACE, 11:519, 1988.

21) K.M. Ropella, A.V. Sahakian, J.M. Baerman and S. Swiryn, “Discrimination of fibrillatory from non-fibrillatory rhythms: coherence spectra,” PACE, 11:519, 1988.

22) K.M. Ropella, A.V. Sahakian, J.M. Baerman and S. Swiryn, “ Effect of procainamide on atrial electrograms during atrial fibrillation: a potential drug-device interaction,” Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 11:165A, 1988.

23) K.Ropella, A. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Effect of procainamide on atrial electrograms during atrial fibrillation: a potential drug-device interaction,” Clinical Research, 35(6):836A, 1987.

24) J. Slocum, A. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Computer detection of atrial fibrillation on the surface electrocardiogram,” Computers in Cardiology, 1986, (paper 52).

25) Sahakian and A. Baur, “Data compression in impedance pneumography,” Proceedings of the ACEMB 39th Annual Meeting, 1986, p. 225.

26) P.G. Gross, B.M. Matsumoto, R.W. Glover and A.V. Sahakian, “Apnea monitoring using lung sounds,” Proceedings of AAMI 21st Annual Meeting, 1986, p. 33.

27) J. Slocum, A. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Characterization of atrial fibrillation in the frequency domain,” Circulation, 72:III-434, 1985.

28) A.V. Sahakian and K.H. Kuo, “Canceling the cardiogenic artifact in impedance pneumography,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., BME-32(10), 1985, p. 893.

29) J. Slocum, L. McCarthy, E. Byrom, A. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Detection of A-V dissociation in wide-QRS tachycardias,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., BME- 32(10), 1985, p. 891.

30) J. Slocum, E. Byrom, L. McCarthy, A. Sahakian and S. Swiryn, “Detection of A-V dissociation on the surface ECG,” Proceedings of the Engineering Foundation Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, 1985.


31) A.V. Sahakian, W.J. Tompkins and J.G. Webster, “Reducing electrode motion artifacts in electrical impedance pneumography,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., BME-31(8), 1984, p. 570.

32) W.J. Tompkins, A.V. Sahakian, B.M. Tompkins and J.F. Kreul, “A microprocessor-based arrhythmia monitor/recorder for the operating room,” Proceedings of AAMI Annual Meeting, 1980, p. 217.

33) W.J. Tompkins, J.G. Webster, A.V. Sahakian, N.V. Thakor and W.C. Mueller, “Long-term, portable, ECG arrhythmia monitoring,” Proceedings of AAMI Annual Meeting, 1979, p. 278.

PATENTS:

Issued: 1) US Patent 10,594,319 “System and Method for Complimentary VT-Drop Ambipolar

Carbon Nanotube Logic,” Co-inventor with Joseph Friedman, Mark Hersam and Michael Grier, March 17, 2020.

2) US Patent 10,002,964 “System and Method for Threshold Logic with Electrostatically Formed Nanowire Transistors,” Co-inventor with Joseph Friedman, Andrey Godkin, Alex Henning and Yossi Rosenwaks, June 19, 2018.

3) US Patent 9,728,636 “System and Method for Threshold Logic with Electrostatically Formed Nanowire Transistors,” Co-inventor with Joseph Friedman, Andrey Godkin, Alex Henning and Yossi Rosenwaks, August 8, 2017.

4) US Patent # 9,711,200: “Method for Computing with Complementary Networks of Magnetic Tunnel Junctions,” co-inventor with Joseph S. Friedman, July 18, 2017.

5) US Patent # 9,299,917 B2: “Magnetic Tunnel junctions with control wire,” co-inventor with Joseph S. Friedman, March 29, 2016.

6) U.S. Patent # 9,186,103: “System and Method for Spin Logic,” co-inventor with Joseph S. Friedman and Bruce W. Wessels, November 17, 2015.

7) European Patent WO/2003/061759: “Methods and Apparatus for Detection and Treatment of Syncope,” Granted April 18, 2007.

8) U.S. Patent # 6,895,275: “Methods and apparatus for detection and treatment of syncope,” co-inventor with H.T. Markowitz, M.K. Erickson and A. Schuler, issued May 17, 2005.

9) U.S. Patent # 6,061,589: “Microwave antenna for cancer detection system,” co-inventor with J.E. Bridges, A. Taflove and S.C. Hagness, Issued May 9, 2000.

Provisional and Applications:

1) USPTO Application 20180235686: “Systems and methods for ablation status monitoring and custom ablation shaping,” with Yearnchee (Curtis) Wang and Terence Chan.

2) US Provisional 62524715 “Additive Manufacturing of Inverse-Designed Metadevices’” co-inventor with Koray Aydin and Francois Callewaert.

3) US Provisional 15/627,911 “Tonometry Based Blood Pressure Measurements Using a Two-Dimensional Force Sensor Array,” with S. Mehrotra and I. Mikhelson.

4) US Provisional NU 2014-097 “Precise electroporation ablation of arbitrary shape and volume,” with Yearnchee (Curtis) Wang.


5) US Provisional NU 2013-097 “All-Carbon Spin Logic,” Alan Sahakian, Bruce Wessels and Joseph Friedman.

Recent Talks 1) IEEE Region-4 Big Data Workshop, Plenary talk, October 25, 2017. 2) Northwestern University/Tel-Aviv University Joint Workshop, “Spintronic and Magneto-

Resistive Logic for Beyond-CMOS Computing,” July 17, 2018. 3) Invited keynote talk “Spintronic and Magneto-Resistive Logic for Beyond CMOS

Computing,” IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology, Naperville, IL, May 23, 2015.

4) “Magnetoresistance Implications for Complementary Magnetic Tunnel Junction Logic (CMAT),” IEEE/ACM Nanoscale Architecture (NanoArch) Conference, Boston, MA, July 9, 2015.

5) “Spintronic and Magneto-Resistive Logic for Beyond CMOS Computing,” Distinguished Lecture in ECE, IIT, Chicago, IL, September 4, 2015.

6) “Spintronic and Magneto-Resistive Logic for Beyond CMOS Computing” Physics and Astronomy colloquium, Northwestern University, January 15, 2016.

SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS: IEEE (Fellow) and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, Antennas and Propagation Society, Computer Society. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) AIMBE (Fellow) Eta Kappa Nu American Society for Engineering Education (member and Northwestern University campus representative).

CURRENT EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (2012-present) Editorial Board member for Scientific Reviews (Nature Publishing) for the area of Electronics, Photonics and Device Physics (2016-present)

POSITIONS WITHIN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES IEEE: Distinguished Lecturer, EMBS (1993-2011). IEEE EMBS Fellows Committee (2003-2005 and 2006-2007) Advisory Board: IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (1998-2011) Steering Committee, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (1998 through 2000) Vice President for Publications and Technical Activities of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) (1996 and 1997/1998 terms) Region-4 (north-central US) Administrative Committee (AdCom) representative for EMBS (1993/95 and 95/97 terms)


Chair, Emerging Technologies Committee, EMBS (1993 through 1995). Chair, Publications Committee, EMBS (1996 through 1998) Member and Chapter Activities Committee, EMBS (1993 through 1997). Student activities committee, EMBS (1993 through 1997). Biomedical Engineering Society: Editorial Board, Instrumentation section, for the Annals of Biomedical Engineering, (1990-93).

Recent reviewer for: IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, Circulation, Biotechnology Progress, Medical Engineering and Physics, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices.

AWARDS / CHAIRS John A. Dever Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015-2018. Charles Deering McCormick Chaired Professorship in Teaching Excellence, 1999-2002. Associated Student Government (ASG) faculty honor roll for years 1996, 1997, 2002 and 2012. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Advisor of the Year Award, 1995-96. Bette and Neison Harris Chaired Professorship in Teaching Excellence, 1993-95. Northwestern University Alumni Association: Award for Teaching Excellence, 1992. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Award for Teaching Excellence, 1990. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Teaching Honor Roll, 1990.

OTHER HONORS/AWARDS: 2012-13: CIC (Big-Ten Academic Alliance) Academic Leadership Program Fellow 2011: Elected a Fellow of AIMBE “For contributions to electrophysiology of atrial cardiac arrhythmias” 2007: Elected a Fellow of IEEE “For contributions to electrophysiology of atrial cardiac arrhythmias’ 1996: Distinguished Alumnus and Outstanding Achievement Awards, University of Wisconsin - Parkside. 1995: Outstanding IEEE Student Branch Advisor, Region-4.

RESEARCH SUPPORT: CURRENT: From the NSF STTR Phase II 1738541 (co-investigator with Robert Rioux of Innoblative Designs, LLC): “Automated system for creating custom three-dimensional radiofrequency ablation lesion geometries in post-lumpectomy margin ablation breast cancer treatment,” $583,417 from 9/15/2017 to 2/29/2020.


From the NIH: R01 CA196967, Co-investigator with Drs. Andrew Larson and Zhuli Zhang: “MRI-Guided Irreversible Electroporation Ablation for Liver Tumors,” 07/01/15 – 6/30/19. COMPLETED: From the NSF Award 1622842: STTR Phase I (with Innoblative Designs): “Automated system for creating custom three-dimensional radiofrequency ablation lesion geometries in post-lumpectomy margin ablation breast cancer treatment,” July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017. From the NIH: U01 EB020589: Co-investigator with Professor Sanjay Mehrotra: “Unassisted Blood Pressure Monitoring using Arterial Tonometry and Photoplethysmography,” 09/30/15 – 07/31/17. From the NIH: Award Number K12GM088020: “Northwestern University-Select Teaching and Research Training (NU-STAR) Program” co-PI with Lawrence Henschen. From the NIH: “MRI for In-Vivo Quantification of Y-90 Micropheres” (F-31 with Andrew Larson and Oyenlolu Adeyanju). From the Defense Intelligence Agency (subcontract from Argonne National Labs), Remote Detection of Intent, co-pi at NU. From the Department of Defense, “Nanoparticle Contrast Agents for Enhanced Microwave Imaging and Thermal Treatment of Breast Cancer’” $506,537, September, 2007 – October, 2009, Co-investigator with Xu Li as PI. From Intel: Improving Bit-Rate, Noise Performance and Power Dissipation of On-Chip Buses, Intel Corporation, (NUFinancials Award # CNV0035067, Project # 60016633, end date 3/31/2014) From Intel: Improving the Accuracy of Timing Verification Tools, Intel Corporation, (NUFinancials Award # CNV0035773, Project # 60016636, end date 8/31/2014) From Intel: Simultaneous Co-Design of Clock and Power Distribution Networks, Intel Corporation, (NUFinancials Award # CNV0060383, Project # 60019567, end date 9/30/2014 ) From Intel: Interconnect Design for Many-Core and 3-D Chips, Intel Corporation, (NUFinancials Award # CNV0051858, Project # 60016680, end date 5/31/2015) From Honeywell, Inc. (through Segal Design Institute), SafeCar vehicle for first-responders (undergrad research/design). From the Dr. Scholl Foundation, “Mechanisms of Atrial Fibrillation, a Study Focusing on Issues of Repolarization,” Cumulative: $342,600 through 11/2009, Co-PI with Steven Swiryn.


From the National Science Foundation through the VaNTH Center: “A module teaching principles of Cardiovascular Signal Processing,” and “A module teaching principles of magnetic resonance imaging using a bench-top instrument” Approx. $250,000, through 8/2007. From Medtronic, Inc., “Signal processing for implantable cardiac pacemakers” Cumulative: $281,000, through 10/2007. From the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), “Lightweight cryptographic techniques,” Co-PI with Horace Yuen and Majid Sarrafzadeh, $967,043, 6/1/00 – 5/01/03. From the O’Shaughnessy Foundation, “Instrumentation to correlate body position with cardiac arrhythmias in ambulatory patients,” $25,000, (co-investigator with S. Swiryn), 12/1/99 through 11/30/00. From AT+T/Lucent Technologies, Special Purpose Grant to Establish a Multidisciplinary Laboratory for the Development of Technology for Optical Video Networks, $65,000, (with P. Kumar and A. Katsaggelos as co-PI’s), 11/96 through 10/97. From the NIH, “Microwave Breast Cancer Detection,” (SBIR grant subcontract from Interstitial, Inc, with J. Bridges and A. Taflove), 6/96 through 7/97. From the Federal Aviation Administration, “Image Processing for Radiographic Inspection” through the Center for Aviation Systems Reliability, Iowa State University, $120,000, 9/90 through 2/95. From Siemens: “Processing enhancements for digital angiographic image sequences,” (with A. Katsaggelos as co-investigator), $276,827, 12/1/89 through 12/31/92. From Siemens: Photoelectron-statistic-limited X- ray angiography, (with A. Katsaggelos and B. Sullivan as co-investigators), $18,000, 5/1/89 through 11/30/89. From the Microelectronics Systems Center: “Multi-processor for modeling complex two-dimensional arrays in matrix representations,” $2,500, 10/1/88 - 9/30/89. From Evanston Hospital “Atrial fibrillation: studies from atrial electrograms,” (co-investigator with S. Swiryn), $32,598, 12/1/87 through 11/30/88. From Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc. (St. Paul, MN) “Conversion of atrial fibrillation using low-energy intra-atrial countershocks,” (co-investigator with J.M. Baerman), $10,000, 10/1/87 through 12/31/87. From University Research Grants Committee: “Algorithm studies for long-term neonatal apnea monitoring,” $2,000, 6/1/85 through 5/31/86.


GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISEES: ADVISEES HAVING COMPLETED DEGREES:

Janet Slocum (Ph.D. EE completed 5/86). Thesis title: “Computer detection of A-V dissociation and atrial fibrillation.” Albrecht Baur (M.S. EE completed 8/85). Project title: “Data compression of the impedance pneumogram.” Kuo-Hua Kuo (M.S. EE completed 12/85). Project title: “A software package for the acquisition and analysis of the impedance pneumogram.” Brian Matsumoto (M.S. BME completed 8/87) Thesis title: “Instrumentation for the acquisition and analysis of heart-rate variability data.” Nicos Maglaveras (Ph.D. EE completed 10/87) Thesis title: “Computer modeling of propagating cardiac action potentials in one and two dimensional tissue using finite elements.” James Varelis (M.S. BME completed 6/87) Thesis title: “On the relationship between potential and impedance motion artifacts in silver/silver chloride surface electrodes.” Jacob Weinrib (M.S. CS completed 1/87) Project title: “Evaluation of a significant-point extraction algorithm for ECG data compression.” Hala Medawar (M.S. EE completed 12/87) Project title: “Design of a pulse oximeter.” Kristina Ropella (nee Piacsek) (M.S. BME completed 6/87) Thesis title: “The effects of procainamide on intra-atrial electrograms during atrial fibrillation,” (Ph.D. BME completed 11/89) Thesis title: “Bivariate analysis of cardiac rhythms,” Joel Kirsh (M.S. BME completed 6/88) Thesis title: “Ventricular response to atrial fibrillation: role of atrioventricular conduction pathways.” Wei-Dee Hsiao (M.S. EE completed 12/88) Project title: “Theoretical and experimental studies for improved pulse oximetry.” David Zung (M.S. EE completed 12/88) Project title: “Design and implementation of a pulse oximeter utilizing a pseudo-random binary sequence generator.” Pamela Gross, M.D. (Ph.D. BME completed 6/89) Thesis title: “The use of a piezoelectric polymer transducer to study the frequency partition of chest wall sounds.” Bernice Kauffman (M.S. BME completed 9/89) Thesis title: “An automated investigation of somatosensory evoked potential evaluation in cervical spondylosis myelopathy.” Ibrahim Ajami (M.S. EE completed 12/89) Project title: “Detection of A-V dissociation in wide-QRS-complex tachycardias using median-event cancellation and Hilbert-transformed autocorrelation analysis.” Haris Sih (M.S. EE completed 12/90) Thesis title: “Effects of uniform anisotropy on wavelet fractionation and effects of refractoriness dispersion on electrogram calculations in a computer model of a fibrillating cardiac tissue sheet.” (Ph.D. EE Completed 12/94) Thesis title: Coherence mapping of cardiac tissue and its application to atrial fibrillation. Seung-Jae Lee (M.S. EE completed 6/92) Thesis title: “A computer model of radiographic image formation.” (Ph.D. EE completed 12/97) Thesis title: Resolution enhancement of image sequence using motion-compensated sub-pixel registration and interpolation. Mary Sue Reinert (M.S. EE completed 12/92) Thesis title: “A comparison of three techniques for magnitude-squared coherence estimation of simulated data and cardiac electrograms.”


Edward Gerstenfeld, MD, (M.S. BME completed 6/93), “Detection of patterns in atrial endocardial activation during sinus rhythm, retrograde conduction, and atrial fibrillation with use of an orthogonal catheter.” Akila Srinivasan (M.S. BME completed 5/93), “Intra-atrial electrograms in comparison with respiratory activity and surface electrocardiograms during atrial fibrillation.” Cheuk Chan (Ph.D. EE Completed 7/93) “Image sequence filtering and displacement field estimation under quantum-limited imaging conditions.” Daniel Levy (M.S. CS Completed 6/94) Thesis title: A Unix/Dos disk sharing system. Kok-Hwee Ng (Ph.D. BME Completed 12/94) Thesis title: Arterial tissue characterization by intravascular ultrasound radio frequency signal analysis. Adam Schoenwald (M.S. BME Completed 12/94) Thesis title: Observations on linking of atrial activation from long-term three-dimensional endocardial recordings during atrial fibrillation. Stephanie Shors (M.S. BME Completed 5/95) Thesis title: A method for determining high-resolution activation time delays in atrial myocardium. Irfan Lateef (M.S. BME Completed 5/96) Thesis title: Validation of a multi-site monophasic action potential mapping electrode array. Sergio Shkurovich (M.S. BME completed 11/96) Thesis title: Detection of atrial activity from high-voltage leads of implantable cardioverter defibrillators using a cancellation technique. (Ph.D. BME completed 6/2001) Thesis title: Monophasic action potential mapping of atrial repolarization. Ming-Shing Lee-Peterson (M.S. BME completed 6/97) Thesis title: A simultaneous multi-channel monophasic action potential electrode array for epicardial repolarization mapping. Mingchun Li (M.S. ECE completed 12/99) (Non-thesis degree) Andreas Schuler (M.S. ECE completed 6/2001) Thesis title: Jason Ng (M.S. ECE Completed 6/2001) Thesis title: Sensing and documentation of body position during ambulatory ecg monitoring, (Ph.D. ECE completed 6/2004) Thesis title: Multidimensional analysis of atrial fibrillation and flutter Qin (Cecilia) Xi (Ph.D. BME completed 9/2003) Thesis title: Analyzing atrial activity in surface electrocardiograms to determine mechanisms of atrial fibrillation and flutter. Emin Oral (Ph.D. ECE completed 6/2004) Thesis title: A computational study of reconstruction algorithms for ultra-wideband electromagnetic pulse imaging in tissue Brian Craig (non-thesis M.S. BME completed June 2004) Chris Hayes (non-thesis M.S. BME completed June 2004) Amit Sharma (non-thesis M.S. BME completed August 2004) Marisa Ruffolo (Ph.D. ECE completed 6/2005) Thesis title: The development of storage requirements and the analysis of optimal storage placement for a federated digital medical imaging network. Haitham al Angari (Ph.D. ECE completed 12/05) Thesis title: Studies of the Cardiorespiratory Interaction in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS). Maria Guillem de la salud Sanchez (non-thesis M.S. BME completed 6/06) (Fulbright Fellow from Universidad Polytechnica de Valencia Spain) Markus Billeter (Visiting Scholar) Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Eidgenossusche Technische Hochschule Zurich, Thesis title: Laboratory Demonstration of Spatial Encoding in MRI. Grace M. Nijm (M.S. ECE completed 6/06) Thesis title: Characterization of the Magnetohydrodynamic Effect in the Surface ECG during MRI, (Ph.D. ECE completed June 2009)


Thesis title: “Signal processing of gating signals for cardiac MRI and computational modeling of magnetohydrodynamic blood flow potentials” Simona Petrutiu (Ph.D. ECE completed 6/08) Thesis title: Frequency Domain Analysis of the Surface Electrocardiogram and Intracardiac Electrograms: Insights into the Mechanisms of Atrial Fibrillation Jonathon Koenig (M.S. ECE completed June 2010) Thesis Title: “Observations of pacemaker Pulses in High Bandwidth Electrocardiograms and Dower-estimated Vectorcardiograms” Wendy Yip (Ph.D. EE completed June 2012) Thesis title: “Investigation of electromagnetic properties of multi-particle systems in the optical and microwave regions” Oyenlolu (Lolu) Adeyanju (Ph.D. BME completed June 2012, M.D. completed June 2014) Thesis title: “The optimization of irreversible electroporation to treat hepatocellular carcinoma” Ilya Mikhelson (Ph.D. EE completed June 2013) Thesis title: “Real-time detection and tracking of vital signs with an ambulatory subject using millimeter-wave interferometry” Erdem Cicek (Ph.D. in EE completed September 2014) Joseph Shimon Friedman (Ph.D. Computer Engineering completed June 2014) Thesis Title: “Cascaded Magnetoresistive Spintronic Computing” Curtis Wang (Ph.D. in Computer Engineering completed June 2019) Thesis Title: “Real-time Control in Embedded Systems using Deep Neural Network-based Estimation Applied to Joule Heating”

CURRENT Ph.D. STUDENTS: Emre Besler (Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, completion expected 6/2020)

TEACHING AND COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY:

Courses Taught: EECS 106: Introduction to Electrical Engineering EECS 201: Fundamentals of Computer Organization EECS 202: Introduction to Electrical Engineering EECS 203: Introduction to Computer Engineering EECS 205: Systems Software (Assembly Language) EECS 306: Electronic Circuits EECS 316: Mini/Microcomputers and Real Time Applications EECS 346: Microprocessor System Design EECS 353: Digital Microelectronics EECS 377/BME 384: Biomedical Computing EECS 395/495/ BME 383: Cardiovascular Instrumentation BME 325: Introduction to Medical Imaging BME 395: Advanced Medical Instrumentation GTK 106: Engineering Design and Communication (co-taught) CAS 380-7: American Sign Language and Deaf Culture (three-quarter sequence, co-taught)


COMMITTEES AND SERVICES AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: 2007-2010 General Faculty Committee Representative for the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science 2007-present Northwestern Center for Engineering Education Research 2001-2009 Board of Directors for Motorola Center for Seamless Communications 2000-2011 Northwestern Conciliation Council 1999-present Fellow of the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence 1997-2004 McCormick Co-operative Education Steering Committee 1997-2003 Northwestern Community Council (NCC) 1997-1999 Executive Board, University Faculty Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure-Denial Appeal Panel (UFRPTDAP) 1995-2000 Master of the Lindgren Residential College of Science and Engineering 1994-2001 Northwestern University delegate to American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) project on peer evaluation of teaching 1993-1999 Steering Committee for Searle Center for Teaching Excellence 1993-1994 McCormick Committee on our Future 1993-1995 McCormick Committee on Excellence 1993-1995 and Elected Member, UFRPTDAP 1996-1998 1992-1993 Chairman of McCormick Teaching and Advising Awards Committee 1991-1998 Chairman of EE Curriculum Committee 1991-2000 Faculty co-advisor, McCormick Design Competition 1991-1995 Faculty Associate to the Lindgren Residential College of Science and Engineering 1990-1998 EE Dept. representative on McCormick Curriculum Committee 1986-1998 Honors Program in Medical Education (seven-year BS/MD) Admissions Committee (alternating years) 1986-1998 EE Laboratory Budget Committee 1986-2000 BME Undergraduate Curriculum Committee 1986-present IEEE student branch counselor and advisor 1985-1987 EE Ph.D. Qualifying Examination Committee 1985-present Faculty advisor or co-advisor to N.U. Amateur Radio Society (W9BGX) 1984-1991 EE Program Committee

OTHER COMMITTEES: 2018 Organizing committee for IEEE Region-4 Big Data Workshop 2011-present Editorial Board for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 2002-2004 Organizing Committee for the 2004 Computers in Cardiology Conference 1995-2001 Steering Committee for the Chicago Section IEEE EMBS 1995-1997 Organizing Committee for the 1997 EMBS conference 1998-1999 Publications co-chair for 1999 IEEE Biosignal Interpretation Workshop

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